Dr. Hakala | Spring 2017 | UC Merced

Mulvey on Morocco

You’ve read Laura Mulvey’s analysis of Sternberg’s Morocco (1930). Now take a look at the film’s trailer. Where do you see examples of Mulvey’s arguments about narrative cinema? How might bell hooks respond to Mulvey’s arguments about the film? What might hooks add to the critique? What might a postcolonial feminist critic, like Gayatri Spivak, add to the conversation?